Usage and Operation Archives

Wood Square

Start off with a simple engraving project.

Setting Up Your Page Let’s begin by creating a new file in CorelDRAW. Click File in the menu bar at the top of the screen. Then select New from the drop-down list. Now enter your page size. Enter 4.5” for the page width and 4.5” for the page height. Then (...)

04/01/2025

Creating City Maps (CorelDRAW)

Learn how to source and prepare artwork for cutting and engraving city maps using CorelDRAW.

City Map Image Capture Start off by visiting snazzymaps.com to create a custom city map for laser engraving or cutting. Creating an account is not required, but if you are interested in creating different city maps for customers or friends, signing up will give you the ability to save map (...)

04/01/2025

Maximum Rotary Attachment Diameters

What is the maximum diameter/length that will fit on the Rotary Attachment?

Maximum diameter that will fit on the Rotary Attachment for each system Epilog Zing 24: 5.25″ (133mm) Epilog Mini 18: 3″ (76mm) Epilog Mini 24: 5″ (127mm) Epilog Helix: 8″ (203mm) Fusion 32: 10.75″ (273 mm) Fusion 40: 10.75″ (273 mm) Fusion M2 32: 10.25″ (260 mm) Fusion M2 40: (...)

04/01/2025

Creating City Maps (Illustrator)

Learn how to source and prepare artwork for cutting and engraving city maps using Adobe Illustrator.

City Map Image Capture Start off by visiting snazzymaps.com to create a custom city map for laser engraving or cutting. Creating an account is not required, but if you are interested in creating different maps for customers or friends, signing up will give you the ability to save map locations (...)

04/01/2025

Using PhotoLaser Plus

Learn how to quickly prepare photos for engraving using PhotoLaser Plus.

Prepare Photo Begin by importing a photograph into PhotoLaser Plus. Select the ‘Import’ option from the ‘File’ menu. Then select a photo. Now click on the work area to place the photo. Next, resize the image to match the engraving piece. In this example, our engraving piece is 6” x (...)

04/01/2025

Using Color Mapping in the Epilog Software Suite

Save time by setting up multiple passes with different settings.

It’s easy to color map with the Epilog Dashboard. Prepare the Artwork for Color Mapping For this file, we want to score the red numbers and cut out the blue outlines. Once the artwork is ready, Print the file to the laser. Everything has come over in a single process (...)

11/11/2025

Using Margins to Preview Your Engraving

Use this technique to quickly fine tune your engraving.

For a helpful tip, we’ll show how to use margins in the Epilog Dashboard to preview the engraving to make sure our photo quality is ideal. Prepare the Artwork We’ll be engraving this photo on a wood plaque. First, we’ll process the photo in PhotoLaser Plus. (...)

03/31/2025

Center-Center vs Custom Center Engraving

Learn about preset positioning to center your artwork along with techniques to center offset graphics.

Using Center-Center There are many ways to use Center Engraving on the Epilog Laser Dashboard. Let’s take a logo we want to engrave at the center of a coaster. In the Epilog Dashboard, choose the Advanced Tab. Next to Centering Point you’ll see a list of all (...)

03/31/2025

Using the Rim-Style Rotary Attachment

Here we’ll walk you through the steps of customizing a glass mug using the Rim-Drive Rotary Attachment.

Install the Rim-Style Rotary To install the Rim-Style Rotary Attachment, lower the table and turn off the machine. Place the Rotary at the top-left corner of the table. Attach the plug to the machine at the top-right corner of the bed. Turn the machine back on. (...)

04/01/2025

How to Quickly Make an Engraving Fix

Using Epilog's IRIS camera to increase depth or improve engraving!

Isolate Text This initial engraving looks good, but the text portion could be deeper! We can isolate the text to improve the result. Turn off the camera. Ungroup your artwork. Select the text and Separate by Selection. You’ll see two processes listed now. Turn off the photo process. Adjust Settings (...)

03/31/2025

Use Print Merge to Customize Multiple Items

Learn to use the print merge feature in CorelDRAW to easily distinguish and engrave multiple items at once.

Import Data Here we have a series of name badges to engrave and cut on the laser using print merge. First we’ll need to pull in the list of names. Select File > Print Merge > Create/Load Print Merge Click Import File and navigate to your .csv, .rtf, or (...)

03/31/2025

Precisely place artwork using the IRIS Camera

Learn to fit a graphic to a knife blade shape in minutes.

Artwork Setup Here we have a graphic we want to engrave on a blade of knife, which we can do by using the camera. In the Laser Dashboard, using the camera, we can see the knife blade placed in the laser. Start by clicking the Copy Background Image (...)

04/30/2025

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Wood Square

Creating City Maps (CorelDRAW)

Maximum Rotary Attachment Diameters

Creating City Maps (Illustrator)

Using PhotoLaser Plus

Using Color Mapping in the Epilog Software Suite

Using Margins to Preview Your Engraving

Center-Center vs Custom Center Engraving

Using the Rim-Style Rotary Attachment

How to Quickly Make an Engraving Fix

Use Print Merge to Customize Multiple Items

Precisely place artwork using the IRIS Camera